Setting Up Ubuntu 16.04 for i524¶

Prerequisites¶

This assumes:

You have a recent installation of Ubuntu 16.04 running, either installed natively or through VirtualBox. See the ../lesson/linux/ubuntu lesson for details on how to accomplish this.

Check by running the following command:
```
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:        16.04
Codename:       xenial
```
You have administrative privileges on this machine.

Check by running the following command:
```
$ sudo whoami
root
```

Setting Up¶

Updating the cache¶

Once the requirements are satisfied, you must ensure the package manager has an up-to-date cache of the available packageds. Do so by running the apt-get command:

$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main Sources [55.8 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
# ....etc
Fetched 11.1 MB in 23s (474 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Installing Development Tools¶

Editors¶

You should ensure that an editor such as emacs, vim, or nano is installed:

$ sudo apt-get install -y emacs vim nano

Version Control (Git)¶

Install Git using:

$ sudo apt-get install -y git

Development Tools¶

Install build essentials and supporting development libraries:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libffi-dev

Install Python and other necessary programs and tools:

$ sudo apt-get install -y python-dev python-virtualenv python-pip graphviz make

Install cryptography:

$ sudo pip install cryptography

LaTeX¶

You should also install the full TexLive package. This will result in several gigabytes of download and install, so make take a while:

$ sudo apt-get install -y texlive-full